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Low-Carb Diet for Two: 100 East, Flavorful Recipes to Get Healthy Together

Low-carb living made perfect for two—healthy tips and 100 easy recipesCooking healthy meals for two on a low carb diet doesn't have to be expensive—or end in excessive leftovers. Low Carb Diet for Two makes it easy with shopping and meal-planning tips alongside 100 flavorful, healthy low-carb recipes—all created with two people in mind. This cookbook guides you through your low carb diet journey, letting you eat deliciously while on the path to better health together.Learn what carbs are, how they affect your body, and why eating a low carb diet can be so beneficial. Find grocery shopping advice, lists of kitchen essentials, and simple ingredient swaps to make the food you already enjoy lower-carb. All the beginner-friendly, two-serving recipes include complete nutritional info.Low Carb Diet for Two includes:100 Recipes for two—Dig in to Antipasto Zoodle Salad with Herbed Vinaigrette, Green Curry Poached Salmon Bowls, Beef and Spinach Stroganoff, Double Fudge Brownies, and much more.Perfectly portioned—All of the recipes are scaled to feed two people with few leftovers, making shopping easy and helping you save money at every meal.Diet-friendly features—Suit your needs with substitutions to make recipes lower-sodium, lower-fat, dairy-free, vegan, diabetes-friendly, and more.Staying on track with your low carb diet is a snap with Low Carb Diet for Two.

Low-Carb Dieting For Dummies

Reduce your weight, your cholesterol, and your blood pressure Get the facts about carbs and get serious about improving your health Curious about going low-carb? This plain-English guide explains the latest research behind reduced-carbohydrate diets, dispelling the myths and revealing how to navigate your way through the good and bad carbs to create a diet plan that works! You get delicious recipes and lots of tips to make your low-carb diet a success. Discover how to: Stock a low-carb kitchen Prepare 75 tasty low-carb recipes Eat right while dining out Create both meat and vegetarian dishes Incorporate exercise into your day Maintain a low-carb lifestyle The Dummies Way Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun

Low-Carb Slow Cooker: Quick, Delicious and Sugar-Free Slow Cooker Recipes for All the Family

This beautifully illustrated book contains a wide range of low-carb meals that are particularly suitable for slow cookers. This fuss-free way of cooking enables you to eat well without spending hours in the kitchen, and to come home to a nourishing and healthy meal from a busy day out. The book offers a wide range of recipes, from soups to coq au vin to tomato ketchup.· Quick and easy, but healthy family recipes · Delicious low-carb and sugar-free meals for dieters · Tasty pantry recipes, including sauces, chutneys and conserves.A low-carb and sugar-free diet has been proven to help with weight loss and stop or even reverse many health problems, including Type 2 Diabetes, which can in turn reduce your chances of developing Alzheimer's disease and cancer. This book is suitable for those following a low-carb lifestyle, as well as those following sugar-free, Paleo, LCHF and high-protein ways of eating. Sarah Flower is the author of Slow Cook, Fast Food and The Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook. As a leading nutritionist and author of The Sugar-Free Family Cookbook, she is a passionate advocate of sugar-free and low-carb eating.

Low-Carb Slow Cooker: Quick, Delicious and Sugar-Free Slow Cooker Recipes for All the Family

This beautifully illustrated book contains a wide range of low-carb meals that are particularly suitable for slow cookers. This fuss-free way of cooking enables you to eat well without spending hours in the kitchen, and to come home to a nourishing and healthy meal from a busy day out. The book offers a wide range of recipes, from soups to coq au vin to tomato ketchup.· Quick and easy, but healthy family recipes · Delicious low-carb and sugar-free meals for dieters · Tasty pantry recipes, including sauces, chutneys and conserves.A low-carb and sugar-free diet has been proven to help with weight loss and stop or even reverse many health problems, including Type 2 Diabetes, which can in turn reduce your chances of developing Alzheimer's disease and cancer. This book is suitable for those following a low-carb lifestyle, as well as those following sugar-free, Paleo, LCHF and high-protein ways of eating. Sarah Flower is the author of Slow Cook, Fast Food and The Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook. As a leading nutritionist and author of The Sugar-Free Family Cookbook, she is a passionate advocate of sugar-free and low-carb eating.

Low-Carb Smoothies: More Than 135 Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth Without Guilt

Watching your carbs? Look inside for more than 135 fabulous recipes for frosty drinks so delicious it’s hard to believe they’re legal. If you’re a committed carbohydrate counter or a calorie-conscious eater, you can reclaim the pleasure of sipping a yummy, nutritious smoothie. Donna Pliner Rodnitzky, a proven master at whipping up palate-pleasing glassfuls, presents a host of great-tasting, sin-free delights. InLow-Carb Smoothies, you’ll learn how to transform a carb-and calorie-laden smoothie into a guiltless treat by replacing forbidden ingredients with intensely flavored sugar-free syrups, low-glycemic fruits, and protein powders. Get tips on how to find the best fruit and the basic equipment you’ll need to create low-carb smoothie perfection. With both low-carb and ultra-low-carb options, you’ll find recipes to suit every phase of your diet, whether you’re on the most stringent plan or in a less-restrictive maintenance phase. All the recipes minimize the carb count and maximize taste. Discover too a host of ideas for low-carb garnishes, from strawberry fans to carb-friendly peanut-butter cookies, to make your smoothies not only taste great but look great. A smoothie is the perfect treat to serve your guests at the end of a meal or as a midday refresher—they’ll never know it’s diet-friendly. Choose from a host of delectable recipes, including: •Huckle–berry Thin •Blueberry Chill •Coconut CarbBuster •Raspberry Tornado •South Peach to Diet For •Raspberry Chocolate Espresso •Chocolate Almond Bar Smoothie •Peanut Butter Cup •Happily Ever Apple •And more . . .

Low-Carb Vegetarian Cookbook: 100 Easy Recipes and a Kick-Start Meal Plan

Limited carbs. Unlimited flavor—the complete vegetarian cookbookNow you can enjoy hearty and heart-healthy meals in minutes. The Low-Carb Vegetarian Cookbook is the perfect way to feel full and lose weight while serving up scrumptious veggie dishes at home.Featuring 100 quick, easy, and mouthwatering recipes like Avocado Almond Toast and Savory Cheesecake, this creative vegetarian cookbook will help guide you on your culinary adventure. Kick-start your low-carb meal plan today and start eating smarter, healthier, and happier in a snap.The Low-Carb Vegetarian Cookbook contains:Low-carb delights abound—Enjoy hearty vegetarian cookbook recipes like Savory Mushroom Masala and Vegan Cheeseburger Salad.14-day meal plan—Explore a sample two-week menu, including low-carb options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.Pro diet tips—Get convenient, time-saving advice and simple strategies for satisfying cravings.Stay carb-conscious and eat lots of oh so delicious dishes with this 100% vegetarian cookbook.

Low-Cholesterol Cookbook For Dummies

Cook and eat your way to a healthier heart! Now you really can eat to your heart's content with this easy cookbook and guide. From breakfasts to dinners, from super starters to "legal" desserts, you'll find a mouthwatering assortment of tasty and satisfying low-cholesterol recipes you -- and your family and friends -- will love. With advice on choosing the right foods, low-cholesterol cooking techniques, and more, this book helps make heart-healthy eating a snap. Discover how to * Shop for the best food and ingredients for low-cholesterol cooking * Adapt your favorite recipes to fit your needs * Make heart-smart choices from restaurant and takeout menus * Tell the difference between "good" foods and "bad" foods

Low-Cholesterol Cookbook For Dummies

In the UK, 7 out of 10 people over the age of 45 have high cholesterol levels (Bupa 2007). Although there are no clear symptoms, high cholesterol levels have been associated with heart disease and stroke - two of Britain's biggest killers. There are several factors that can cause high cholesterol; an unhealthy diet, being overweight and a lack of exercise are three of the main contenders. As a result, some of the best ways to control and reduce cholesterol levels are losing weight, eating a heart-healthy diet and taking regular exercise.Although eating healthily may sound simple, it's often difficult to know which foods to avoid when trying to lower cholesterol. Fully adapted for the UK market, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook For Dummies reveals which food you should eat and helps readers make small changes to their diet to achieve big results.Low-Cholesterol Cookbook For Dummies includes:The latest dietary and medical information on cholesterol and how to control itOver 90 delicious recipes as well as low fat cooking techniques and ways to lower cholesterol on a daily basisSensible advice on finding the right foods when shopping, planning menus, and adapting recipes to suit family and friends.

Low-Cholesterol Cookbook For Dummies

Delicious, easy recipes backed by the latest science on lowering cholesterol Low-Cholesterol Cookbook For Dummies gives you the tools you need to make simple, healthy meals for managing cholesterol. More than 120 recipes—including 40 that are brand new in this edition—are here to fill your plate with delicious food that your taste buds and your heart will thank you for. There&’s a ton of new science out there on cholesterol, and this book brings you right up to speed with the latest studies and medical wisdom for managing your cholesterol with diet. Relying on heart-healthy foods—on their own or in conjunction with a statin medication or as an alternative—a low-cholesterol diet can protect your ticker and, thanks to these recipes, can even impress family and friends. Learn the basic principles of how diet affects your blood cholesterol Discover foods that give you important nutrients and special compounds for lowering cholesterol and preventing heart disease Find the right ingredients when shopping, planning menus, and adapting recipes to support your health and please family and friends Enjoy more than 120 easy-to-prepare recipes, including breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts Anyone who wants to control cholesterol while eating well has a friend in Low-Cholesterol Cookbook For Dummies.

Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes

Dozens of fabulous, new, fat-conscious recipes are presented by the master of top-secret kitchen concoctions. These easy-to-follow recipes, along with Wilbur's patented blueprint illustrations, are guaranteed to produce healthier homemade treats that taste identical to the real thing, such as Nabisco( Reduced-Fat Oreo( Cookies or Entenmann's( Light Low-Fat Cinnamon Rolls.

Low-Fodmap 28-Day Plan: A Healthy Cookbook with Gut-Friendly Recipes for IBS Relief

Relieve your painful IBS symptoms permanently with The Low FODMAP 28-DAY Plan.Millions of people suffer from IBS, which can cause painful and embarrassing symptoms. Now you can relieve your worst IBS symptoms by adopting a low FODMAP diet. FODMAPs are simple carbohydrates that can be the hidden culprits behind digestive disorders. The Low FODMAP 28-Day Plan, from New York Times and Amazon best-selling publisher Rockridge Press, is a straightforward 4-week plan for removing FODMAPs from your diet and banishing digestive pain forever. With easy guidelines and simple recipes, you'll learn how to identify and avoid FODMAP foods, and make healthy and delicious FODMAP free meals in your own kitchen.With The Low FODMAP 28-Day Plan you will soothe your digestive system and make it easy to enjoy meals again, with:105 recipes for delicious, nutritious low FODMAP dishes including Huevos Rancheros, Maple-Soy Glazed Salmon, Butterscotch Pudding, and Spiced PopcornA "symptom tracker" so you can log what you're eating and how it affects your symptomsAn easy-to-follow quickstart guide to help you begin a low FODMAP dietComprehensive lists of foods to enjoy or avoid based on their FODMAP content,10 tips for sticking to a low FODMAP diet when dining out

Low-GI Cookbook

Eating a low-GI diet is the ultimate way to high energy levels, permanent weight loss and great health. This practical book offers 80 mouthwatering recipes for every occasion, from quick-fix lunches such as Poached Eggs with Lentils & Rocket to delectable dinners including Baked Sweet Potato with Griddled Herb Chicken. There's no need to miss out on pudding either, with low-GI recipes for sweet treats such as Blackberry & Apple Tartlets and Fruity Bread & Butter Pudding. Together with expert information on how the glycaemic index works and why low-GI foods are so good for you, with The Low-GI Cookbook you'll find living the low-GI life is easy.

Low-GI Vegetarian Cookbook

Low-Oxygen Stress in Plants

During the last ten years, knowledge about the multitude of adaptive responses of plants to low oxygen stress has grown immensely. The oxygen sensor mechanism has been discovered, the knowledge about the interaction network of gene expression is expanding and metabolic adaptations have been described in detail. Furthermore, morphological changes were investigated and the regulative mechanisms triggered by plant hormones or reactive oxygen species have been revealed. This book provides a broad overview of all these aspects of low oxygen stress in plants. It integrates knowledge from different disciplines such as molecular biology, biochemistry, ecophysiology and agricultural / horticultural sciences to comprehensively describe how plants cope with low oxygen stress and discuss its ecological and agronomical consequences. This book is written for plant scientists, biochemists and scientists in agriculture and ecophysiology.

Low-So Good: A Guide to Real Food, Big Flavor, and Less Sodium with 70 Amazing Recipes

This low-sodium cookbook and eating guide shares seventy delicious, healthy recipes plus restaurant advice and more from the creator of SodiumGirl.com.Many common medical conditions—such as heart disease, hypertension, kidney disease, and diabetes—require lowering our sodium intake. But living a healthier, low-sodium lifestyle doesn’t have to mean giving up on great, flavorful food. In this guide, Sodium Girl Jessica Goldman Foung teaches you how to live Low-So Good.Jessica shares signature swaps, a seven-day Taste Bud Reboot, a transformation workbook, 70+ recipes for much-loved food (including fries, cake, and dips), and advice for every part of life. And with a focus on fresh ingredients and creative cooking, Low-So Good will inspire anyone with a special diet to live well every day.

Low-Sodium Cookbook for Beginners: 100 Flavorful Recipes and a 4-Week Meal Plan

Ease into a low sodium diet with 100 recipes and a 4-week meal plan for cooking well at homeIf you've recently switched to a low sodium diet to improve your health, learning how to properly eat, shop, and cook without sacrificing taste can seem overwhelming. Low Sodium Cookbook for Beginners will make the journey easier with a 4-week meal plan and 100 easy-to-follow recipes that put flavor at the forefront.This low sodium cookbook helps you keep track of your sodium intake, learn to replace common high-sodium foods with healthier alternatives, and learn how to prepare low sodium meals you'll actually enjoy.Go beyond other low sodium cookbooks with:Low-sodium habits—Find tips for how to watch what you eat at restaurants, choose your condiments wisely, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, decipher food labels, and be cautious with canned goods.Phased-down sodium intake—This low sodium cookbook will allow your taste buds to adjust to your new healthy diet with a meal plan that reduces sodium week by week.Comprehensive diet advice—Get a handle on comorbidities like kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, and heart disease with nutritional calculations that account for potassium, carbs, saturated fat, and protein levels.Low Sodium Cookbook for Beginners shows you how delicious it can be to live a low sodium life.

Low-Sodium Meal Prep Cookbook: 6 Weeks of Easy, Flavorful Make-Ahead Meals

6 weeks of make-ahead meals to jump-start your low-sodium diet Discover how easy it can be to start and stick to a low-sodium diet with the power of meal prep. With these convenient and flavorful recipes, you'll be able to turn a few hours of prepping into a full week's worth of meals, ready to reheat and serve.What sets this book apart from other low-sodium cookbooks:Low sodium made simple—Find out why a low-sodium diet is good for you, what you should be eating, and how to make sure meals still taste great.6 weeks of meals—Avoid the question of "What am I going to eat?" with 6 full menus, each covering 7 days' worth of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners.For any home cook—Enjoy a full range of meals featuring familiar ingredients and straightforward directions perfect for both new and experienced meal preppers.Reduce your sodium intake with ease using this prep-focused, heart healthy cookbook.

Low-carb Recipes for Husbands: Delicious Reasons to Live a Healthier Life

You don't need to reinvent yourself to have a healthier life! Get to know some of my low carb recipes that made my husband healthier. Besides learning tasteful recipes like bread, lasagne and Cottage pie you'll also learn how to make more of each dish expanding your recipe options. And you have more than 50 of them! In addition, you will have access to my exclusive list of tips for an easy low carb life. All the recipes inside this book come with their net carb quantities. All of them were tested and are prepared on a daily basis.

Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally: Drop Pounds and Slash Your Blood Pressure in 6 Weeks Without Drugs

We are in the midst of a blood pressure crisis. Nearly 70 million Americans have been diagnosed with hypertension, and just 56 percent of them have it under control. Hypertension is responsible for 69 percent of first heart attacks and 77 percent of first strokes. But there is good news: High blood pressure is very responsive to lifestyle changes. And the more changes you make, the greater your results.Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally by Sari Harrar provides readers with a comprehensive lifestyle plan. Readers will follow the Power Mineral Diet, which centers on 13 delicious, powerful, blood pressure–lowering foods, along with an easy, doable exercise program that combines the proven effectiveness of cardio, strength training, and yoga on blood pressure. Not only do these methods help lower blood pressure on their own, they promote fast, sustainable weight loss, which has an independent blood pressure–lowering effect. With daily meal plans; flavorful, versatile spice blends; and 50 recipes, plus Power Mineral smoothies and desserts, the plan proves that a heart-healthy diet need not be bland or boring. Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally offers one of the easiest and most effective ways to conquer hypertension yet.

Lower Your Blood Pressure: A 21-Day DASH Diet Meal Plan to Decrease Blood Pressure Naturally

Make your healthy heart a habit with the diet and meal plan in Lower Your Blood Pressure. <p><p> As 54% of the 75 million Americans who suffer from hypertension know, leading a heart-healthy lifestyle is easier said than done. Recognizing both the rewards and challenges of dieting to lower your blood pressure, Jennifer Koslo, PhD, RD, CSSD, lays out an effective and easy to follow 21-day DASH diet meal plan to help you start and stick to healthy habits. Featuring over 75 low-sodium, high-potassium, and magnesium-filled recipes, Lower Your Blood Pressure is your kick-start guide to get your heart beating right. <p> Take the pressure out of keeping your sodium levels in check with Lower Your Blood Pressure.

LuLu's Kitchen

Updated with a new introduction and amazing photography, the bestselling cookbook by Lucy Buffett (chef sister of Jimmy Buffett) includes authentic family recipes from her Alabama and Florida destination restaurants, Lulu's. LULU'S KITCHEN is Lucy Buffett's culinary guide to classic Southern coastal cuisine and is packed with more than 120 signature recipes from her famous Gulf Coast restaurant, LuLu's, and LULU'S KITCHEN is the next best thing to being there. Tucked inside are humorous stories and plenty of wit and wisdom from Lucy's own kitchen. The book features party menus, Buffett family favorites, and lots of telling it like it is. Recipes include soul-satisfying delights like West Indies Salad, Heavenly Fried Crab Claws, Garlic Cheese Grits, and Silver Queen Succotash-not to mention a whole chapter of specialty cocktails that will have you daydreaming of cold margaritas and warm sand between your toes.

Lucid Food: Cooking for an Eco-conscious Life

Green Your Cuisine with Earth-Friendly Food Choices. With organic and seasonal cooking principles becoming ingrained in today's kitchens, and new buzzwords including locavore and CSA steadily gaining traction, how do we integrate food politics into daily life in ways that are convenient, affordable, and delicious? Lucid Food offers more than eighty-five healthy, eco-oriented recipes based on conscientious yet practical environmental ideals. Sustainable chef and caterer Louisa Shafia demystifies contemporary food issues for the home cook and presents simple, seasonal dishes that follow nature's cycles, such as Baby Artichokes with Fresh Chervil, Apricot Shortcake with Lavender Whipped Cream, and Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese Soup. Her empowering advice includes how to source animal products ethically and responsibly, support local food growers, and reduce one's carbon footprint through urban gardening, preserving, composting, and more. This cookbook celebrates the pleasures of savoring home-prepared meals that are healthful, honest, pure, additive-free, and transparently made, from the source to the table.

Lucinda's Rustic Italian Kitchen

Home-style Italian American cuisine from the Everyday Food cohost, Mad Hungry author, and Martha Stewart Living executive editorial director. Even the writing has an irresistibly Italian flavor in this cookbook by Lucinda Scala Quinn. She presents fifty-two delicious, easy-to-prepare Italian recipes from her childhood and her extensive travels throughout Italy. Included are drinks such as the Aranciata Cocktail and Handmade Cappuccino; Bruschetta Pomodoro and Grilled Calamari appetizers; pasta dishes including Rigatoni with Rapid Ragu and Linguini with Clams; recipes for Pizza Margherita, Risotto Milanese, Osso Buco, and Veal Piccatta; and mouthwatering desserts to top off your meal. Mangia! &“Along with plenty of color beauty shots by Quentin Bacon, Quinn&’s book demonstrates that even at its very humblest, Italian cooking yields extraordinary flavors.&” —Publishers Weekly

Lucky Iron Fish: A Social Enterprise Tackling Iron Deficiency

“The story of the Lucky Iron Fish is a great example of how business can be a force for good.”— MICHELE ROMANOW, Dragons’ Den host and CEO, ClearbancResearch into iron deficiency and entrepreneurial determination brought the Lucky Iron Fish to cooking pots around the world. When Canadian researcher Dr. Christopher Charles was studying the devastation caused by iron deficiency in impoverished populations in Southeast Asia, he discovered an innovative way to help people get iron into their diets: place an iron ingot right into their cooking pots. Dr. Gavin Armstrong, a biomedical scientist and entrepreneur, built upon Charles’s findings to develop, manufacture, and distribute that ingot, which became the Lucky Iron Fish, a cost-effective solution to iron deficiency. The business thrived and the product was recognized around the world by NGOs and organizations such as World Vision, CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, and GlobalMedic. While sustaining growth through the pandemic was a challenge, Lucky Iron Fish met it head-on and now looks ahead to a bright future.

Lucky Peach All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World's Most Important Food

A handbook, a cookbook, an eggbook: this quasi-encyclopedic ovarian overview is the only tome you need to own about the indispensable egg. Eggs: star of the most important meal of the day, and, to hear billions of cooks and chefs tell it, quite possibly the world's most important food. Does that make Lucky Peach's All About Eggs the world's most important book? Probably yes. In essays, anecdotes, how-tos, and foolproof recipes, this egg-centric volume celebrates everything an egg can be and do. Whether illuminating the progress of an egg through a chicken, or teaching you how to poach the perfect egg, All About Eggs bursts with facts to deploy at your next cocktail party—then serves up a killer deviled egg recipe to serve while you’re doing it. All About Eggs is for anyone who has ever delighted in the pleasures of an omelet, marveled at the snowflake patterns on a century egg, or longed to make a sky-high soufflé.From the Hardcover edition.